Visual Materials

Gathering sea weed…

Description: Image of a building along the shoreline with a man in a small rowboat collecting seaweed.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885-1895
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002193
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the Louis Prang archive was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Home from the shore

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Image of a man walking next to his horse pulling a cart away from the rocky shoreline along a beach; gulls and a ship on the sea in background.

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Image of a sample book page with five watercolor landscapes (3 recto, 2 verso): cottages on the seacoast; birds in a clearing; trees along a dirt road; a man walking on a countryside path towards a lake; and a cottage on a lake with a rowboat.

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Stock label: man and woman in rowboat on lily pond

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Image of a man and woman holding a red parasol or umbrella in a rowboat on a lily pond; orange with leaves and blossoms.

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The exiles and other stories by Richard Harding Davis

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Image of an advertisement for The Exiles and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis featuring an African American woman walking along a shoreline with a suitcase over one shoulder and a bundle with walking sticks under her arm; a man stands at the top of a bluff holding a lit cigarette at top left; ship on the water in background at right.

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“A critical moment.”

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Image of two women in a small rowboat that is about to capsize as a man balances precariously between the boat and a dock; the man's toupee and hat have flown off, and his pipe and spectacles are about to fall into the water.

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John A. Stevens - the only - the original. : The new unknown a river mystery

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Image of a central image of a man with torn clothing lying face down in the bushes before a mansion with the caption "Uncared for, Unpitied, He Wanders Alone, A Creature of God, Forsaken, Unknown," with an image at left of a man in a rowboat rescuing a drowning man from the water with a bridge barely visible in the background, and an image at right of a man standing on a rock with waves crashing around him while holding a lifeless woman over his shoulder; the poster advertises a rewritten version of the melodrama "The Unknown" by John A. Stevens.

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Gathering sea weed…

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